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Release Day Blitz & Review::: False Start by Sloan Johnson

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UKCover: Cover Me, DarlingLength: 75,000 wordsWilmington Breakers SeriesDown By Contact (Book #1) Amazon US | Amazon UKBlurbNixon Cross isn’t wired to share his life with anyone. He’d considered a relationship once, but after the one man patient enough to put up with all his quirks shut him down, he committed all of his energy to football and helping his players. Now, one of his players need more help than Nixon can provide and his former flame is the one man who will know what to do. Retired NAFL player Lincoln Sims had no choice but to stay in the closet; he was a professional athlete at a time when it was impossible to be honest about his sexuality. After retiring, he confessed his secret to his wife and son because he was tired of living a lie. Now, he’s ready to live his life. Nixon Cross is the man he left behind but could never forget.Can these men find a way to recover from their false start years earlier?

4 1/2 out of 5 stars

I enjoy a friends to lovers story in general and when the friends happen to also be characters from a book I’ve already read and enjoyed, it makes the story even better. Linc and Nix captured my attention in Down by Contact, the first book in the Wilmington Breakers series and I was so, so excited to know that this book was going to be all about them.

I think at the heart of this story is family - and not always family by blood, but family by team and life experiences. I enjoyed watching Linc try to do the best for his son and Nix coming to accept that he mattered to people as more than a trainer. One of the best quotes in the book is one that I think we could all remember daily and something that Lincoln said to his son:

“There’s a lot of uncertainty in the world. If you constantly live in fear of what could go wrong, you’ll never truly live.”

Thank goodness these guys didn’t live in fear and thank goodness the author gave us such a great story to enjoy. I can't wait for more from Wilmington or anywhere else that Ms. Johnson wants to take us.

Author Bio

Sloan Johnson is a big city girl trapped in a country girl’s life. While she longs for the hustle and bustle of New York City or Las Vegas, she hasn’t yet figured out how to sit on the deck with her morning coffee, watching the deer and wild turkeys in the fields while surrounded by concrete and glass. When she was three, her parents received their first call from the principal asking them to pick her up from school. Apparently, if you aren’t enrolled, you can’t attend classes, even in Kindergarten. The next week, she was in preschool and started plotting her first story soon after. Later in life, her parents needed to do something to help their socially awkward, uncoordinated child come out of her shell and figured there was no better place than a bar on Wednesday nights. It’s a good thing they did because this is where she found her love of reading and writing. Who needs socialization when you can sit alone in your bedroom with a good book? Now, Sloan is a tattooed mom with a mohawk and two kids. She’s been kicked out of the PTA in two school districts and is no longer asked to help with fundraisers because she’s been known to lose herself with a good book and forget she has somewhere to be. http://authorsloanj.com/https://facebook.com/authorsloanjohnsonhttps://plus.google.com/u/1/+SloanJohnsonAuthorhttp://instagram.com/authorsloanjhttp://pinterest.com/authorsloanjhttp://authorsloanj.tumblr.com/https://twitter.com/authorsloanj